biostudies-literatureUnknown13(1)Karmelich CDeveloping materials with high efficiency for recovering oil to mitigate the environmental impact of oil spills has always been a challenging task. A commercial melamine formaldehyde sponge was coated with an optimised superhydrophobic/superoleophilic hyper-crosslinked polymer and applied to the removal of crude oil from oil-in-water emulsions for the improvement of oil spill clean-up processes. The high surface area, porosity, hydrophobicity, and selectivity of oil over water made the hyper-crosslinked polymer coated sponge (HPCS) an ideal sorbent for efficient oil/water separation. The system was able to strip crude oil from water emulsions of 1000 ppm to a negligible level of 2 ppm oil with minimal amounts of the HPCS material. More importantly, the HPCS material could be reused via a sScientific reportshttps://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10276045biostudies-literatureAdvancing hyper-crosslinked materials with high efficiency and reusability for oil spill responsePMC10276045Konstas KCrooke ETian WWood CQi XWan ZCarroll AKarmelich CfalseAdvancing hyper-crosslinked materials with high efficiency and reusability for oil spill responseDeveloping materials with high efficiency for recovering oil to mitigate the environmental impact of oil spills has always been a challenging task. A commercial melamine formaldehyde sponge was coated with an optimised superhydrophobic/superoleophilic hyper-crosslinked polymer and applied to the removal of crude oil from oil-in-water emulsions for the improvement of oil spill clean-up processes. The high surface area, porosity, hydrophobicity, and selectivity of oil over water made the hyper-crosslinked polymer coated sponge (HPCS) an ideal sorbent for efficient oil/water separation. The system was able to strip crude oil from water emulsions of 1000 ppm to a negligible level of 2 ppm oil with minimal amounts of the HPCS material. More importantly, the HPCS material could be reused via a s2023-01-01T00:00:00Z2023 Jan2025-04-18T20:35:02.552Z2025-02-19T00:50:02.775ZS-EPMC10276045